Awash in Data, Thirsting for Truth

The story’s thesis and details have been well worked over since it was published. The Future of Music Coalition, an advocacy group for musicians, posted a long response on its site. The article’s author, Steven Johnson, responded in detail, and the group then answered him. The Times’s standards department considered a request for correction and decided against it. “We looked at it thoroughly and did not find a correctable error,” Greg Brock, senior editor for standards, told me. In my view, the original article should have clearly explained how the category had changed.